President Donald Trump may have just undermined the effort to get a citizenship question added to the 2020 census by identifying his administration’s real motives behind the effort. Since Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, moved to add the citizenship question to the 2020 census in 2018, the Trump administration has claimed the query is necessary to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. But with a citizenship question added to the census, experts and activists say it could discourage people of color from participating and privilege conservative and rural areas with smaller noncitizen populations. By its own analysis, the Census Bureau has estimated millions of people could be left out of the census count if a citizenship question is added to the survey. The president’s remarks come the same day his administration missed a deadline to provide an adequate justification for adding the citizenship question.

Source: Huffington Post July 05, 2019 19:41 UTC